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...furor mounted, opposition leaders tried to sabotage Whitlam's stratagem. The Country Party premier of Queensland, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, noticed that by some oversight Gair had not yet officially resigned from the Senate, and immediately published midnight election writs for his seat. This meant, according to the constitution, that the seat would be filled by the Queensland government-therefore by a non-Labor nominee-until the next general election in December 1975. Whitlam's efforts to pick up an extra Senate seat were thus stymied...
...allegations to the proper federal investigators. Instead, on April 15, they finally brought such information to him. It was after Dean and Jeb Stuart Magruder, the deputy chief of the Nixon re-election committee, had begun talking to the prosecutors that Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and his deputy, Henry Petersen, went to the White House and told Nixon of the extensive involvement of his aides, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean...
...meeting with Dean Whitlock yesterday, Wehle said she was told indirectly that if the full $5 million could not be raised the cultural facilities would be eliminated. Petersen said he considered construction of the complex "as important as anything we could do for Radcliffe." "The problem with Radcliffe dorms is that the amenities aren't nearby," Petersen said...
Weicker notes that the FBI'S Gray, the then Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and the Justice Department's then Criminal Division Chief Henry Petersen all denied in their Senate Watergate testimony that any orders for an investigation had come to them at that time from the President. Ehrlichman, according to Nixon, did not begin investigating Watergate until March 29. Since the White House concedes that Dean revealed his own role in the cover-up to Nixon on March 21, he would hardly have been the one to appoint to gather additional facts. Who if anyone, asks Weicker...
While the news stories traced some links between the White House and the electronic eavesdropping on the Democrats, the Justice Department prepared to handle the case routinely. Henry Petersen, head of the department's criminal division, assigned a team of bright but junior prosecutors, including Earl J. Silbert, Seymour Glanzer and Donald Campbell, to the task. At Petersen's direction, they showed little zeal for tracing the source of the funds used by the men arrested at the Watergate or determining who had authorized the politically motivated crime...